Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Web Clutter (Page Clutter, Visual Clutter)
- Non-essential elements on a web page that do not contribute to the primary content or user task, such as advertisements, decorative images, redundant navigation, social media widgets, and promotional …
- Web Complexity (Page Complexity, Website Complexity)
- A measure of the technical sophistication and structural density of a web page, typically assessed by the number and types of HTML elements, scripts, embedded objects, and interactive features present…
- Web Compliance Engineering
- A discipline within Web Engineering focused on the application of quality assurance, testing, and management processes to ensure that web applications conform to standards, policy environments, and ot…
- Web Composition (Component-Based Web Development)
- Web composition is the practice of building web pages by dynamically combining smaller, reusable pieces of HTML markup — often called snippets, components, or fragments — into complete pages. Modern w…
- Web Content Filtering (Content Filtering, Page Filtering)
- The process of selectively displaying or hiding elements on a webpage based on specified criteria. Web content filtering encompasses both type-based filtering (e.g., ad blockers that remove advertisem…
- Web Crawler (Spider, Web Spider, Web Scraper)
- An automated program that systematically browses the World Wide Web by following links from page to page, collecting and indexing content. In accessibility, web crawlers are used as part of large-scal…
- Web Crawling (Web Spidering, Web Scraping)
- The automated process of systematically browsing and indexing web pages by following hyperlinks from a starting URL. In accessibility evaluation, web crawlers are used to discover and catalogue pages …
- Web Inclusion (Digital Inclusion, Web for All)
- The principle and practice of ensuring that the web is usable by and beneficial to all people, regardless of disability, language, literacy, cultural background, technical proficiency, or socio-econom…
- Web Information Extraction (WIE, Web Data Extraction, Web Scraping)
- Web Information Extraction (WIE) is a set of techniques for automatically identifying and extracting structured data from web pages. In the context of accessibility, WIE methods are used to analyze th…
- Web Interaction Environment (WIE)
- A modelling concept defined as a particular audience group's set of intrinsic characteristics upon which tailored evaluation procedures can be applied to a website. Introduced by Lopes and Carrico (20…
- Web Intermediary (Web Proxy, Transcoding Proxy)
- A system that sits between a user's web browser and the web server, intercepting and modifying HTTP requests and responses to adapt web content before it reaches the user. In accessibility contexts, w…
- Web Localization (Website Localization, L10n)
- The process of adapting a website for a specific locale or market, going beyond text translation to include technical and visual modifications such as adjusting layouts for different text directions, …
- Web Localization (L10n, Website Localization)
- The process of adapting a website for a specific locale or target audience, going beyond translation to include cultural, visual, and technical elements such as date formats, colors, images, menu size…
- Web Mediation (Web Content Mediation, Web Accessibility Mediation)
- The process of automatically modifying web content as it passes between a web server and a user's browser, typically through a proxy server or browser extension, to improve its accessibility or usabil…
- Web Mining (Web Data Mining, Web Content Mining)
- The application of data mining techniques to extract and discover useful information from web data, including web content, structure, and usage patterns. In accessibility evaluation, web mining can be…
- Web Mobility (Hypertext Mobility, Web Navigation Mobility)
- A conceptual framework that applies principles of physical mobility and wayfinding to web navigation, particularly for visually impaired users. Web mobility encompasses the ability to move through hyp…
- Web Navigation (Website Navigation, Web Browsing Navigation)
- The process of moving through and finding information on websites, encompassing strategies like following links, using search, scanning headings, and interacting with menus and filters. Web navigation…
- Web Page Complexity (Page Complexity, Structural Complexity)
- A measure of how much a web page contains in terms of interactivity, embedded media, and structural richness. The W3C's WCAG-EM defines complexity through three factors: level of interactivity, source…
- Web Page Preview (Page Preview, Link Target Preview)
- A summary or representation of a web page's content provided to users before they navigate to that page, allowing them to assess its relevance without committing to a full visit. For sighted users, vi…
- Web Page Segmentation (Page Segmentation, Visual Page Segmentation)
- The process of dividing a web page into its constituent visual blocks or semantic regions, such as headers, navigation menus, content areas, sidebars, and footers. Segmentation algorithms analyse both…